Career Share, 2009

Annotated Bibliography 
 

For the “Work and Working” unit we have been looking closely at various aspects of work and working, such as career choice, college courses, expected salary and job requirements.  Those are the practical issues that you immediately associate with your job/job search.  However, there are so many issues and ideas that connect to working.  Many you will eventually run across for whatever reason.  These are the types of topics I'd like for you to look at now.

For your annotated bibliography, you are required to find 5 sources out of the following topics:

Job satisfaction  (try your career field AND "job satisfaction")

Unemployment issues (economical/ emotional impact/etc) 
       (try unemployment social aspects, unemployment psychological aspects, job security psychological aspects, layoff systems,
        employees dismissal of, plant shutdowns, downsizing, underemployment)

Going back to school  later on in life/career changes (try adult college students, nontraditional college students, occupational retraining, displaced workers, career change)

Affording college (try paying for college, college costs, student aid, scholarships, student loans)

Careers and families (try work & family, work-life balance)

Opinions and attitudes (try employees attitudes, work and burn-out, job stress)

Salary concerns/issues (try wages and employees, compensation management, wage increases, wage reductions)

Job hazards (try job hazards, occupational hazards, industrial safety)

Blue collar/ white collar jobs (try blue collar workers, white collar workers, green collar workers, skilled labor)
 
Women and working (try women employment, women employees, women executives, women and work-life balance)

Retirement issues (try retirement income, retirement planning, old age pensions, retirement age, social security)

Some of your research may be geared toward your chosen career and some may be general:  have a little of both.

Your annotated bibliography workshop will be the following class period.  Begin your research and bring 3 or your sources to class with you so we can do an annotated bibliography workshop.  This is already scheduled on your research project calendar, as you already know.